Knights of the Frozen Throne is Hearthstone's Next Expansion
A new expansion for Hearthstone is releasing in August! Knights of the Frozen Throne will be adding a few brand new mechanics to the game so check out everything that is being added below.
- The expansion releases this August.
- More card reveals will begin on July 24.
- We're getting 135 new cards.
- Everyone dies! Each of the original heroes has a Death Knight version of themselves.
- A new card type is being added that allows you to put Heroes into your deck. This is used for Death Knights.
- Your Hero Power will change when you change your Hero.
- A new mechanic is being added to the game called Lifesteal. When you deal damage with Lifesteal, your hero heals for the amount of damage dealt.
- Deathrattle is making a comeback!
- The adventure portion of the expansion will be taking us to Icecrown Citadel.
- There are three wings followed by the final fight, The Lich King!
- You will earn 1 card pack for completing each wing.
- Completing the prologue of the expansion's adventure content rewards you with a Legendary Hero Card.
- A pre-order is available which will give out a sweet new card back - Frostmourne!
New Cards
Five new cards have been revealed along with a new hero power that goes along with Deathstalker Rexxar.
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Pre-order Card Back
A new card back is available to those who pre-order the expansion. Frostmourne can be yours for $49.99.
- If you'd like to pre-order now, you can do so via the Battle.net shop.
- The card back reward will be available at a later date. The client requires a patch with the new card back before you can obtain it.
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Quote from BlizzardThe Scourge. Death Knights. The Lich King. These are among the most frightening, tragic elements of Azeroth’s past. The awful beings residing in Icecrown Citadel are dark, brooding, and terrifyingly powerful… but also really, really cool! The Hearthstone team knew they wanted to explore the story of the Lich King and his horrifying minions, but how to visit such grim themes while preserving the game's friendly and whimsical spirit?
The answer was obvious: kill EVERYBODY!
Well, not everybody. Just all nine Hearthstone heroes. . . In Hearthstone’s next expansion, Knights of the Frozen Throne, we ask the question: what happens when the heroes fall from the light? When the Lich King raises them from the dead as Death Knights, what will they do with the immense and terrible powers he gives them?
But who is this Lich King we speak of?
The Lord of the Scourge
The tale of the Lich King is a tragic one. It is the story of a young hero willing to take any risk and employ the most extreme measures to save his people. His fear and desperation drove him to take up the cursed runeblade, Frostmourne. While he did gain great power in the process, the promise of power was a trap. The evil in the blade consumed him, setting him on the path to become one of the most powerful and horrifying beings in existence: the Lich King.
As the Lich King, he manifests his strength in the physical realm as the strongest of the Death Knights—commanding power over mortal blood, freezing ice, and unholy corruption. When combined with the soul-devouring hunger of Frostmourne, he is an unstoppable, armor-clad juggernaut. If that weren’t enough, he also controls the vast undead army known as the Scourge from his Frozen Throne atop Icecrown Citadel.
All told, the Lich King and his minions represent one of the greatest threats to life on Azeroth. Foremost among those minions: the Death Knights!
Dead and Loving It
Each Death Knight was once a mighty hero of Azeroth—but after the Lich King raises a hero from the dead, they gain unimaginable strength from beyond the grave. In Knights of the Frozen Throne, each of Hearthstone’s nine heroes has embraced the Lich King’s dark power to serve him as a Legendary Death Knight Hero card! Despite their transformation, they have not fallen completely under the Lich King’s sway, so it’ll be up to you to decide how to wield the awesome abilities at their command.
Hero cards are an entirely new card type that are neither spell, minion, nor weapon. When played, each Death Knight Hero card replaces your hero, casts a Battlecry, dons some hefty armor, AND provides a new Hero Power. While each Death Knight hero is different, they all offer possibilities that can transform the way you play Hearthstone.
Deathstalker Rexxar
When Rexxar’s hunt came to a premature end, he was resurrected as Deathstalker Rexxar. When played, Deathstalker Rexxar fires a flurry of arrows—dealing 2 damage to all enemy minions—and replaces your hero, granting 5 armor and changing your Hero Power to Build-a-Beast.
Build-a-Beast allows Deathstalker Rexxar to stitch together a horrifying new Zombeast by ‘Discovering’ pieces of two former animal friends. The new creation combines all the stats of both creatures he’s sewn together; mana cost, attack, health, and card text. The beastly abomination is then added to Deathstalker Rexxar’s hand to later be unleashed on a hapless foe.
Terrifying indeed! Of course, there are many other threats to found within the Scourge.
The Hunger
Death Knights may be vicious combatants, but they are only a small fraction of the Lich King’s monstrous army. The legions of the Scourge are a menagerie of ravenous undead beings, from lowly ghouls and zombies to hulking, unspeakable abominations that have been stitched together from the flesh of countless victims. The teeming armies of the undead are as gruesome as they are deadly—so you can expect to find some potent abilities among their number!
Some of the Lich King’s spells and minions have the awful power to draw sustenance from the very life essence of a victim: Lifesteal. Lifesteal expands on an ability already found on some cards and gives it a new dedicated keyword. When a card with Lifesteal deals damage, your hero is healed for the same amount. A useful ability to have at hand when you’ve already got both feet in the grave.
Icecrown Citadel
The first steps you’ll take to join the Knights of the Frozen Throne will be within Icecrown Citadel. There you’ll be faced with eight Missions – new single-player content for Hearthstone. Beginning with the Prologue, and then proceeding through grueling battles with Icecrown Citadel’s mightiest denizens, your trial will culminate in a showdown with the Lich King!
Be forewarned! You may find that these are unlike the battles you’ve fought in the past. The forces of Icecrown Citadel are dangerous, and only the determined will prevail. The Lich King himself is a fiendishly difficult opponent, and his tactics will vary when facing each of the nine Classes.
Though you risk your soul merely by entering Icecrown Citadel, the Missions will cost you nothing! The rewards for braving them, however, are enticing indeed: after completing all the Missions, you’ll receive a total of three Knights of the Frozen Throne card packs. Completing the Prologue mission will also add a random Legendary Death Knight Hero card to your collection!
Pre-Purchase Knights of the Frozen Throne
The Lich King rewards devotion. Visit the Blizzard Shop and Pre-purchase 50 Knights of the Frozen Throne card packs for $49.99 USD and receive the soul-devouring Frostmourne card back now.
You will receive the Frostmourne card back and your packs as soon as your purchase is processed, and you can break the seal on your card packs once the expansion is live in your region in early August.
Embrace the Darkness
The dark walls of Icecrown Citadel loom are looming, but you can prepare for the trials ahead by visiting the official Knights of the Frozen Throne site. Hints of the Lich King’s influence pierce the mortal realm even now. Find them on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.
We look forward to seeing what you will accomplish with the tremendous powers of the Death Knight when you join the Knights of the Frozen Throne!
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Except think about the huge loss of tempo you have by playing it. Sure it has a battlecry, but a 2 damage board clear and 5 armor for 6 mana is not a great way to keep the board if you have nothing on it. Blizzard, for example, is a 6 mana 2 damage board clear, but also freezes the board buying you an extra turn and that doesn't break the game.
Is just a combination of Starfall with Iron Hide
So 5 + 1 = 6
They look like justicar, who was played only in 2-3 classes.
The ice shall burn you!
How about instead of spending all that time and money on a release announcement, you fix the CURRENT cards and meta.
But hey, at least the fanboys got their Death Knights and Icecrown.
Yes, we fanboys got what we wanted, cause it's one of the best lorewise themes and characters in the whole warcraft Universe. Also they fixed a problem in the meta, which was quest rogue. Another also, the meta is really good atm. I recommend to you the salt thread to go there. There are more than a dozen of viable decks atm.
That's a bloodelf. No chance that it's Arthas, but it gives us hope that it might be Koltira Deathweaver
Welp, the dream is dead. I was hoping Arthas would've been a Warrior alternate hero. I wanted to play as Arthas, not play him.
Arthas was a paladin so it has more chance to be a paladin legendary. If we get Lich King I guess it will be a neutral powerful minion. The dream is not dead though. There are like a bunch of legendaries to be revealed.
Since when is Arthas a Blood Elf? Good chance this Blood Elf Death Knight is part of the Knights of the Ebon Blade.
Is this supposed to be bait? Arthas is a human not a blood elf
Arthas =/= Blood Elf
Arthas is confirmed anyway he is the leech king after all..
Question: was the Un'goro $50 package available for purchase with Amazon coins?
It will be available next week for in game purchases (in game shop) with the patch for Quest Rogue nerf.
Edit: Now I've realised that you are speaking about Ungoro and not KotFT bundle. Yes it was =)
It was. In fact, they did a special where you could get $10 worth of coins back if you purchased it with amazon coins.
Real sports.
Pls some stuff that fk kills jade druid.
No control deck have a decent chance.